Elaine Farrell

Elaine Farrell is currently a Senior Lecturer in Irish Social History at Queen's University Belfast. She has published widely on the history of crime and punishment, and women's social history in nineteenth and early twentieth-century Ireland. Her first monograph, 'A most diabolical deed': Infanticide and Irish society, 1850-1900 (Manchester, 2013) won the National University of Ireland Publication Prize, 2015. She is currently Co-Investigator on the AHRC-funded ‘Bad Bridget’ project, which examines criminal and deviant Irish women in North America, 1838-1918.